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According to the Electoral Commission "The target to release the Official Results of the 2017 General Election is 2pm on Saturday 7 October 2017." A blogger at Cut Your Hair has crunched the numbers and sees only two plausible outcomes: Realistic possibilities for Parliament post-specials…
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Among the biggest winners of the election will be the Pike River families (Newshub): 'We're going to get into that drift': Pike River families buoyant after meeting Winston Peters, Jacinda Ardern The Pike River families say for the first time in seven years, they have…
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Preliminary talks between NZF and National have concluded, talks between NZF and Labour are due this afternoon: https://twitter.com/NZStuffPolitics/status/915700455040106496 https://twitter.com/NewsroomNZ/status/915657745285763072 https://twitter.com/NewshubPolitics/status/915634291131932672 https://twitter.com/NewshubPolitics/status/915694236179218432 Significantly, Peters met with Pike River families first: https://twitter.com/rnz_news/status/915700503970955264 Gower has resorted to parodying himself? https://twitter.com/patrickgowernz/status/915689093488533504 Summing up: https://twitter.com/ChrisKeall/status/915660317782183936 https://twitter.com/VernonSmall/status/915684269455900673
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Spare a thought for poor Cameron Slater. He is currently involved in a High Court defamation case. Three medical researchers, Doug Sellman, Boyd Swinburn and Shane Bradbook are suing Slater, Carrick Graham, former National front bencher Katherine Rich and the New Zealand Food and Grocery…
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I have seen things you wouldn’t believe. The original Blade Runner movie really meant something. Filmed in 1982 but set in 2019, it held a conservative and melancholy core now recognisable to those of the hard right and hard left alike: the civil order is…
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Ten Reasons for National to Do Another Term. Leave the downturn to National. The economy is cooling, and neither side has any clear plan about how to revive it. The Greens won’t have to compromise. Winston would be just too hard work. English can have…
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Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
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Outspoken sociologist Dr Jarrod Gilbert has written a piece that needed writing for The Herald - Jarrod Gilbert: Continuing curse of blinkered believers I need to talk about political tribalism, this phenomenon that so often mocks the principles that uphold our democracy while chipping away…
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I just finished reading an article by Richard Harman at Politik on "How climate change could derail the government formation talks". Amongst other things it outlines the political positions of the major parties who are going to be involved in coalition talks and the way that…
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This Guest Post by Standardista adam was first published on The Standard in 2015. Given our politics this month it seems relevant to revisit this now. ___________________________________________________________________________ “Smash the State” was a well know maxim of anarchism for a long time. The state is the point where-by the…
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This post by Chloe King is cross posted from millennialposse.wordpress.com I’ve just come from a WINZ (Work and Income New Zealand) office out in East Auckland, I often go as an advocate for people on welfare. I do this because I know going it alone, mostly,…
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Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
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https://twitter.com/max_tweedie/status/915012627230711809 On election day Plunket tweeted this: https://twitter.com/SeanPlunket/status/911356579865288704 He was working for The Opportunities Party at the time. The Electoral Commission's press release: On 2 October 2017, the Electoral Commission referred four incidents to Police in response to complaints about social media content on election…
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I wrote the following post 18 months ago about a Winona LaDuke speech. It seems appropriate to repost it given the current discussion about values and the election. Much of this reminds me of the process of NZ learning about green politics. Both indigenous perspectives…
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Another day another mass shooting in the United States of America. At least 58 people have been killed and hundreds of others injured by a 64 year old armed with an arsenal of weapons. With utter predictability the right is trotting out well rehearsed lines. With…
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I have very mixed feelings about a Labour Green NZF government. I certainly don't think that Labour should "pay any price". So I'm pleased to see Jacinda Ardern acknowledging the Greens (even though dumping on them would smooth the path with Winston): Labour leader Jacinda…
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There is an awful lot of drivel written about "business confidence" and "the market", most of it no better than reading tea leaves. Take the current situation. There is no "strong and stable" government to "lead" us. Maximum uncertainty! No end in sight! According to…
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Seven of New Zealand's most prominent environmental organisations have written an open letter to the leaders of the four largest political parties, thanking them and reminding them that the electorate now has high expectations of whoever forms government to work seriously on climate, water and…
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The Nats are desperate to make big concessions for a coalition with the Greens. The establishment is lining up in The Herald to beg for this to happen. So - Nats will strengthen environmental and social policies in order to cling to power - but…
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I just listened to Bill English being interviewed on Radio New Zealand. He disclosed that he had rang Winston Peters personally on the weekend but that Peters had not returned his call. He also talked around and then gave a really weak response to the…
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This Guest Post is by The Standard regular commenter Incognito. __________________________________________________________________________ This post is about the Green Party, mainly ... (1) It is written in a state of puzzlement by opinions I have read from both Left and Right. Opinions that suggest or strongly argue…
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The following partial transcript comes from interviews contained in this, unfortunately rather poorly put together youtube up-load.* For the sake of space, I've linked to the bios of each interviewee where possible. I'll simply comment that the air of fatalism that comes across in the…
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This weekend we have had the full court press as the Herald threw article after article at the preposterous notion that Winston may go into coalition with Labour. First to address what is their primary claim, that the largest party has first claim to forming…
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